“Know your flaws and respect the people who put up with them… especially when thinking of their flaws. Invest time thinking of how your strengths can help you overcome the flaws in others before they bring out flaws in your personality.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“If you keep finding yourself in a deeper hole, no matter what you try to do to improve your life, you need to do two things. First, stop digging. Clearly the same level of thinking that put you in the hole cannot help you escape. Secondly, seek out help from a friend who has what you want, a mentor with a vested interest in your future, or a professional who understands what you are going through.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“You don’t need me or some actor, musician, or anyone else to convince you. It starts with you choosing to believe that you can do anything you want… even write a haiku.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Whoever reads and listens to this book ethics, he never faces defeat even from Indra”
Source: Panchatantra
“I'm not ready to let 2014 go. It feels like letting Sam go. Yet I know that I have no choice. It's another day I don't know how to get through.”
Source: A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss
“And handsome Zorawar!
No one feature made him so striking, though his eyes came close. From them came a passion, an honesty, a gentleness. He was handsome from the depth of his eyes to the tender expression of his voice. He was fetching from his generous opinions to the touch of his hand. His voice quickened when he sparkled with a new idea or when he was so enjoying one of Ayesha’s that he lost himself for a moment and quite forgot the mask he wore for others.”
Source: Imperfect Mortals : A Collection of Short Stories
“When the person you love has died, any indication that they once lived is received gratefully, or alternatively, you want to pretend that nothing good has ever taken place in the world.”
Source: Census
“See, the second reason we have burial rites is that they give people a change to say goodbye. Watching a body get put in the ground or go up in flames or be consigned to the deep, you get the sense there's no coming back. You feel that door slam closed. And you cry or laugh or whatever's your deal, but in some place deep inside, you know things will never be the same. They call that closure.
That's the theory, anyways”
“Those who touch our lives stay in our hearts forever.”
“She glanced up to see that her mother was doing the same and she wanted to say, Do you think of her, do you still catch yourself listening for her footsteps, for her voice, for the sound of her breathing at night, because I do, all the time. I still think that one day I might wake and she will be there, next to me, again; there will have been some wrinkle or pleat in time and we will be back to where we were, when she was living and breathing.”
Source: Hamnet